Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,870, Smith Foster, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
* 2 Foster, Smith
NUMBER
d. 34870
CONTENTS
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34 870 Rey INVALID. Rev
File No. 34, 870
Smith Wooster
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 142
[Arrangement of 1870.]

12.133
Massachusetts
Smith Foster
of Carlisle in the state of Mass: who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Alden — of the Massach: line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 18 th of July 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of June 1819 and sent to Samuel Dana Esq. Groton, Middlesex County Mass:
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819. . . . $ 60.64 Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep th 1819 48. 7 mo. 4 18/31 $108.64
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Notification sent October 26. 1820 to Abraham Bigelow, Cambridge, Mass.

Smith Foster
on rolls. 3 rd in Aldens - (deserted & returned to duty)
Judges' certificate of indigence wanted! Am.
See the duen o of Lawl Robbins for a Certy a of Selectmen in this case

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the eighteenth day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen — — — Personally appeared Smith Foster and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
from which it appears to me, that the said Smith Foster did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months.
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the eighteenth day of July — — — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
Sam l Dana
I Samuel Dana Chief Justice, above described — Do further certify, that Smith Foster, who subscribed the above annexed declaration, is a poor man who destitute of property & in such reduced circumstances as to be entitled to the benefit of the Act of Congress aforesaid. —
Sam l Dana
May 15. 1819

249.
Uriah Foster Guardian to Priscilla Foster
12133
June 1819
[Large handwritten signature, likely 'U. Foster']

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice , and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Smith Foster resident in Carlisle — in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 12.199 — now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
“I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the “18th March, 1818, Smith Foster — late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the “Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight “dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of July — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen “Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty first “day of June — one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,
by Miah Foster his Guardian the said Miah appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
“Real Estate-none
Personal Estate-none
Miah Foster.
“And the said Miah Foster Guardian of the said Smith Foster having been first duly sworn according to law does on his oath declare that the said Smith Foster is from the best evidence he has in his possession sixty four years of age — that he is a cordwainer by occupation but has been unable to labour for a great number of years and has during that time and till he obtained a pension been supported partly by the charity of his children and partly by the town of Carlisle . X

that he has no family - and the said declar- ant does not personally know what services the said Smith Foster performed in the Revolu- tionary war but refers to the declaration of the said Smith Foster and evidence accompanying the same on file in the war office dated July 18 th 1818.
Uriah Foster.
Subscribed & sworn to before
Samuel Dana Judge Kc. 11

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Uriah Foster  Smith Foster aforesaid do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have  he has not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my  his property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself  himself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have  he has not, nor has any person in trust for me  him , any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me  him ; nor has he  he any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Uriah Foster
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Uriah Foster took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Samuel Dana, Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembered that on this eighteen day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred, and eighteen before me Samuel Dana Chief justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex, being a Court of Record duly established by law, Cometh Smith Foster of Barkdale in said County of Middlesex, and on Oath declares, that he served in the war of the rebellion against the common enemy three years, that he enlisted into the service upon the continental establishment in the summer of the year of our Lord One Thousand, Seven hundred, and Seventy seven, at Westford in said County of Middlesex, under Lt. Jonas Parker, & was mustered at Concord in said County of Middlesex, by James Barrett Esq. and joined the Army at Albany, where he was placed in the Company of Capt. William Hudson Ballard, in Col. Allyn's Regiment, Lt. Col. Stacey & Major Whiting. Col. Alden, was slain by the Indians at Cherry Valley & Lt. Col. Stacey was captured, when the Regiment was commanded by Major Whiting. after The Regiment returned from the Indian Country, Col. John Brooks took the Command of it, and the said Foster remained in Capt. Ballard's Company, until he had completed his three years, & at Westport he received a regular discharge, this document he preserved many years, but about twenty years since, he lost his packet book, with his discharge, some money and other papers in it, and he has never seen it since. He is now about sixty years old, decrepit, and infirm, wholly destitute of property, even to a single Cent, and by reason of his medical circumstances in life, he stands in need of assistance from his country for support.
Smith Foster
Thus made, taken, subscribed and sworn to at Groton in said County of Middlesex, the day and year aforesaid
Sam. Dana